won't boot: dg965ry motherboard + E6300 core duo + corsair VS DDR2

[scott]

Hello,

I'm throwing together a new system. It's has an Intel DG965RY motherboard,
Intel E6300 core 2 duo, and 2 sticks of 512MB corsair value select DDR2
(p/n VS512MB667D2).

The stupid thing just sits there any blinks the keyboard LEDs. no beeps.
no video output. nothing. any ideas?

I've tried reseating CPU and memory, and tried swapping the memory between
all possible permutations of the 4 DDR2 slots.

Thanks,
Scott

 

[caterbro]

Hello,

I'm throwing together a new system. It's has an Intel DG965RY motherboard,
Intel E6300 core 2 duo, and 2 sticks of 512MB corsair value select DDR2
(p/n VS512MB667D2).

The stupid thing just sits there any blinks the keyboard LEDs. no beeps.
no video output. nothing. any ideas?

Its the RAM. Expensive RAM with tight timings and 965 boards running
Core 2's have problems- Abit had an infamous **** up with their Core 2
board, had like 4 BIOS revisions in a month.

Pull the Corsair sticks and throw in some plain-jane KVR to get it to
boot, then twiddle your thumbs and check for BIOS updates.

check the forums for your board, look for others w/similar problems

always possible you got bad sticks, or have a DOA board, etc.etc.


carl

 

[scott]

Its the RAM. Expensive RAM with tight timings and 965 boards running

Core 2's have problems- Abit had an infamous **** up with their Core 2
board, had like 4 BIOS revisions in a month.

Thanks for the reply, Carl. I thought this at first too, but as I
understand, the board is *supposed* to beep 3 times when the memory is
removed. I've tried booting it with no RAM, and get the exact same thing.
No beeps, no nothing. Just fans running and the keyboard blinking.

I also tried an older socket 478 CPU that I had laying around (a 2.8 Ghz
single-core Pentium 4) and same behavior.

Newegg is shipping me out a replacement, and I'm shipping the old one back
(at my expense!). I'll feel a bit silly if it does turn out to be a RAM
thing after all.

Do you have any feelings about K-Byte or ram (is KVR = kingston?)? Those
are the two in stock at my local best buy and circuit city.

Scott

 

[caterbro]

Thanks for the reply, Carl. I thought this at first too, but as I
understand, the board is *supposed* to beep 3 times when the memory is
removed. I've tried booting it with no RAM, and get the exact same thing.
No beeps, no nothing. Just fans running and the keyboard blinking.

I also tried an older socket 478 CPU that I had laying around (a 2.8 Ghz
single-core Pentium 4) and same behavior.

??????? do you mean Socket T/LGA 775?

for one thing, 478 have pins on them, socket t CPUs don't- that would
be an awkward fit..... like, not at all.

well, sometimes you get a lemon- tough luck, thanks for the follow up.

Newegg is shipping me out a replacement, and I'm shipping the old one back
(at my expense!). I'll feel a bit silly if it does turn out to be a RAM
thing after all.

i had a near identical experience, which led to some reasearch and then
to my supposition on your behalf- we eventually had to boot the board
up with a core duo and, single stick of RAM, to manually set voltage
and clock for the Core 2 and tightly timed RAM. hideous pain in the
ass, imagine having to swap out CPU and RAM every friggin time you
messed with a BIOS setting-we did it 12 times maybe before we figured
out the right configuration.

Do you have any feelings about K-Byte or ram (is KVR = kingston?)? Those
are the two in stock at my local best buy and circuit city.

KVR=Kingston value RAM. I like Kingston, relatively easy to deal with
the company, decent product, price is right

you won't know the difference from that or Fancy-Schmancy low latency
RAM, except the money missing from your wallet, unless you have a
specfic need for it; and you won't notice the performance boost at all.
i mean, not even a teeny, tiny bit.

carl

 

[scott]

??????? do you mean Socket T/LGA 775?

for one thing, 478 have pins on them, socket t CPUs don't- that would
be an awkward fit..... like, not at all.

Well gee now that you mention, it did feel like it didn't fit quite
right....

Yeah, I meant LGA 775. Another case of my fingers typing fasther than my
brain was thinking. I'll post a message and let you know what happens when
the replacement motherboard shows up. I've built a few systems in my time,
but this is the first time I think I ever got a motherboard that was DOA
out of the box.

Scott

 

[scott]

I'm throwing together a new system. It's has an Intel DG965RY
motherboard,

Intel E6300 core 2 duo, and 2 sticks of 512MB corsair value select DDR2
(p/n VS512MB667D2).

FYI for anyone who might come across this thread in the future and be
suffering from similar problems -- it did turn out to be a DOA
motherboard. The replacement arrived and works fine with the corsair DDR2
ram and with the E6300 cpu.

On the other hand, the ICH8 chip used on this board for IDE and LAN is a
complete pain in the ass. None of my bootable linux CDs, emergency boot
CDs, or linux install discs will work with the thing. For unknown reasons
my promise ultra 100 PCI card that I keep around for emergencies refuses
to acknowledge bootable CD images. I eventually got the redhat RHEL4
installer to work by connecting two CD-ROMs to the machine, one to the
motherboard IDE (which can boot the CDs, but has no drivers) and the other
to the promise (which refuses to boot CD-ROMs, but is readable). One hint
for anyone else who tries to install the IA64 RHEL4 on this board, try
booting it with "linux pci=nommconf" if you get lockups while the
installer is "probing PCI hardware".

Other than all of the trouble from the ICH8 controller, the board appears
to be reasonably stable and is working well.